kennedy and the cuban missile crisis, i don t think there s anything as the ability of using a nuclear tact cal weapon and not end up with armageddon. this is stark language and comes as the u.s. considers how to respond to a range of potential scenarios. let s bring in white house correspondent jeremy diamond for more. reporter: u.s. officials say there s been no change in russia s nuclear posture. one senior u.s. official telling cnn that the u.s. didn t detect anything yesterday that would indicate an escalation in russia s nuclear posture, that s why it s striking to hear the language that president biden used last night talking about the prospect of armageddon should putin use nuclear weapons and making clear he doesn t believe the russian leader is bluffing. here s a snippet of the president s comments from the fund-raiser in new york last night, off camera. saying, quote, we have a guy i know fairly well within he s not joking when he talks about potential use of t
my time. i feel like i should deserve a second opportunity. do you think there s something about the united states where we are fascinated by con artists, grifters, liars, is there something that we like, that we find interesting? i would say so, yes. i was thinking, if i were to be prosecuted for similar crimes in germany, i don t think people would really care. you can check out more from what is a fascinating interview on cnn.com. new day continues right now. it is thursday, october 13th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. two years after the capital riot donald trump remains a clear and present danger to democracy, that s what today s january 6th committee plans to hammer home in their first public hearing since july, likely to be the last before midterm elections. and the panel is said to be treating today s hearing as a sort of closing argument. no live witnesses but there will be new evidence and testimony, some of it from members of trump s own cabinet.
declassified. and providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents. now as we and others have reported, and as every expert we have spoken to has said, there is a process for declassification. and if you don t believe them, take it from these republican senators today. there is a process for declassifying documents. there is a process that one must go through. okay. so that s pretty clear. what isn t clear or accurate is what the former president claimed in an interview last night with his tv friend sean hannity. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it, because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but it doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision. so when you send it, it s declassified. even by thinking about it. those are his words, which raises the
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criminal probe. according to the posts reporting, investigators are honing in on trump s pressure campaign on mike pence to overturn the election. and would instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. now, on wednesday, cassidy hutchinson, the january 6th committee s super star witness, was the next to name whose name was what came out cooperating with doj investigators. late last, night the washington post dropping another bombshell. text messages during the lead up to january 6th from donald trump s acting secretary chad and cuccinelli are missing and likely to get recovered. the missing texts were reported to the dhs inspector general in february. but cuffari did not press the department leadership at the time to explain why they did not preserve those records, nor seek ways to recover the lost data, according to the four people briefed on the watchdogs actions. cuffari also failed to alert congress to t